Deeds of Valor: How America’s Heroes Won the Medal of Honor. A History of Our Country’s Recent Wars In Personal Reminiscences and Records of Officers and Enlisted Men Who Were Rewarded by Congress for Most Conspicuous Acts of Bravery on the Battle-Field, on the High Seas and in Arctic Explorations.
BEYER, W.F. and O.F. Keydel [Editors]. Introduction by Henry M. Duffield.
Deeds of Valor: How America’s Heroes Won the Medal of Honor. A History of Our Country’s Recent Wars In Personal Reminiscences and Records of Officers and Enlisted Men Who Were Rewarded by Congress for Most Conspicuous Acts of Bravery on the Battle-Field, on the High Seas and in Arctic Explorations.
First edition of Deeds of Valor; edited by Union Army colonel Henry M. Duffield
Detroit: The Perrien-Keydel Company, 1903.
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First edition of Duffield’s richly illustrated compilation of biographies and stories related to recipients of the Medal of Honor. Quarto, 2 volumes, original cloth, patterned endpapers, profusely illustrated with chromolithographic frontispieces and plates. In very good condition. Uncommon in this condition.
Among other records, Deeds of Valor includes the stirring adventures of Admiral George Dewey, Commander W.D. Cushing, General Julius Stahl, General Arthur McArthur, Admiral D.D. Porter, and General Marion P. Maus.





